Greater Pullman (Pullman, Roseland, West Pullman, Riverdale) — home to the historic Pullman District, important to American history for its early planned industrial/railroad community and subsequent strikes and socialist radicalism

Southeast Shore (South Shore, South Chicago, South Deering, East Side, Hegewisch) — The once prosperous industrial region around the mouth of the Calumet River ("The Port of Chicago") that imploded along with Chicago's steel industry